An 18-year-old girl finishes work and drives home only to be followed to her front door and assaulted by a stranger high on marijuana. As a magistrate considers his punishment, he now says he thought the victim was somebody else.
Police from the Illawarra and south coast will be out in force as RBT and drug tests resume ahead of the Queen’s birthday long weekend.
Police allege Dylan Ward came to their attention after he tried to obtain intimate photos from a 10-year-old girl in the UK using Facebook Messenger. The girl responded: “no you weirdo”.
A tradie has admitted to delivering a “quick cheek jab” on a senior citizen after a disagreement over a carparking space. The assault left the victim with permanent disabilities.
He knew his mate was wanted for the alleged murder of Illawarra man Daniel Clulow but that didn’t stop Matthew Ryan picking him up in the ute, letting him use his mobile phone, and then accompanying him on a dramatic police chase.
David Bagster, the former boyfriend of Valmai Birch, will stand trial in the NSW District Court charged with manslaughter. Ms Birch’s body was allegedly found hogtied and decomposing in a wheelie bin inside her Woonona apartment in 2011.
A 28-year-old Illawarra man has escaped jail but lost his job at a drug and alcohol treatment facility, after he crashed his car while driving more than four times the legal limit.
Police have charged an Illawarra man with the alleged theft of a vehicle from Lake Haven, and subsequent pursuit through the Central Coast suburbs of Erina and Springfield, during which a police car was rammed three times.
One of the Illawarra’s oldest pubs has reopened after major renovations, today revealing a traditional new look.
Police have handed the investigation into a lion attack at a south coast zoo to SafeWork NSW, asking why zookeeper Jennifer Brown was in the cage by herself. Ms Brown is still in a critical condition in hospital with horrific injuries to her head and neck.
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